Famous Exhausts Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Exhausts poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous exhausts poems. These examples illustrate what a famous exhausts poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Sandburg, Carl
...aloots fat with too much, galoots lean with too little, galoot millions and millions, snousle and snicker on, plug your exhausts, hunt your snacks of fat and lean, grab off yours....Read more of this...
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Austen, Jane
...antic groves,
Dispenses aid, and friendly shade
To all that in it roves.
If thus her mind to be defined
America exhausts,
And all that's grand in that great land
In similes it costs --
Oh how can I her person try
To image and portray?
How paint the face, the form how trace,
In which those virtues lay?
Another world must be unfurled,
Another language known,
Ere tongue or sound can publish round
Her charms of flesh and bone....Read more of this...
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Plath, Sylvia
...Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns
And it exhausts me to watch you
Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth.
A mouth just bloodied.
Little bloody skirts!
There are fumes I cannot touch.
Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?
If I could bleed, or sleep! -
If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!
Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,
...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...rrow at my heart;Yet with its poison, joy awakes its tide;My flight exhausts me—grief my life doth rob! Wollaston....Read more of this...
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